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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Författarporträtt av Lönnaeus, Olle](images/writer/5659/wm_BR_5bbf53f15922ab1dd57cca76d070c3a5d76c50c08c0d6.jpg)
Lönnaeus, Olle
1957 -
The journalist and author Olof "Olle" Lönnaeus was born in Tomelilla, Southeast Scania. After completing upper-secondary ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Griffiths, Elly](images/writer/5854/wm_BR_599460e476d8f1f33cdecc86d2a95d6af1c5a73f10038.jpg)
Griffiths, Elly
1963 -
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bussi, Michel](images/writer/7401/5f88cd619a693841a688d5135917cb66d891e1d65a77b.jpg)
Bussi, Michel
1965 -
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bakkeid, Heine](images/writer/7383/wm_BR_5d9b217e51749c4bc71735056610d67a7be326474e0c1.jpg)
Bakkeid, Heine
1974 -
Heine Bakkeid was born in Gratangen in Troms in northern Norway. He grew up there and in Kvæfjord outside Harstad. Heine ...
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